60,000 years of interactions between Central and Eastern Africa documented by major African mitochondrial haplogroup L2

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup L2 originated in Western Africa but is nowadays spread across the entire continent. L2 movements were previously postulated to be related to the Bantu expansion, but L2 expansions eastwards probably occurred much earlier. By reconstructing the phylogeny of L2 (44...

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Main Author: Silva, M (author)
Other Authors: Alshamali, F (author), Silva, P (author), Carrilho, C (author), Mandlate, F (author), Trovoada, MJ (author), Cerny, V (author), Pereira, L (author), Soares, P (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Africa Central
Africa Eastern
African Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
African Continental Ancestry Group/history
Base Sequence
DNA Mitochondrial/genetics
DNA Mitochondrial/history
Emigration and Immigration/history
Evolution, Molecular
Haplotypes/genetics
History
15th Century
16th Century
History 17th Century
History 18th Century
History 19th Century
History 20th Century
History 21st Century
History Medieval
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Polymorphism Single Nucleotide/genetics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10216/109278
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/109278

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http://hdl.handle.net/10216/109278

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